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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (12 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 441. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to put a mechanism in place whereby persons who are going through the medical card review-appeals process will not be pressurised by the Health Service Executive or debt collection agencies acting on their behalf for payment of outstanding hospital debt when there is still a possibility they may be awarded their medical card; in the event of cards...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (12 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 459. To ask the Minister for Health if any protocols exist for the administration of the alcohol abuse control medication Antabuse in an out-patient setting in the Health Service Executive West region; if those protocols differ from protocols in other regions; the number of persons to which the HSE is administering Antabuse in its addiction clinics in the western region; the number of those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (12 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 460. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in its policy document on alcohol dependency the Department of Social Protection has recommended that Disulfiram Antabuse may have potentially fatal side effects and should not be used in an outpatient setting; if the Health Service Executive is continuing through its out-patient and addiction clinics to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (12 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 461. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s capital budget in 2013; the expenditure incurred to date in 2013; if he anticipates it being fully spent in 2013; the reason for the underspend to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48096/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (12 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 475. To ask the Minister for Health if Directive No. 2011/24/EU came into force on 25 October having been adopted in March 2011; if it has been signed into law; if he will confirm whether doctors who treat polio patients will now be able to explore medical treatment for polio survivors in the other 27 EU member states with the Irish health budget absorbing the cost; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 497. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the introduction of free general practitioner care for children aged five years and under; the estimated cost of the measure in 2014; the estimated full year cost; the timeline for the introduction of free GP care to the population as a whole; the estimated annual full year cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48362/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 1. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to receive the 2014 Health Service Executive service plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48345/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The purpose of the question is to find out exactly not only when the service plan will be published but the detail it will contain. There is even an acceptance across the floor that the figures announced in the Budget Statement are not sustainable. A fanciful budget was again presented to the House in terms of the proposed €666 million in cuts. The Minister stated at the Oireachtas...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: There is a great deal of hand washing going on. The HSE is obligated under the Act to provide a service plan but at the same time officials from the Departments of the Taoiseach and Public Expenditure and Reform are trying to verify the figures while the HSE is expected to draft a plan to provide services in 2014. The Minister stated that he feels these figures are almost unachievable and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: We could talk about amnesia a lot. The Minister has experienced a fair amount of it in the context of the commitments made prior to the election and even when he took up office. We will not go down that road. A total of €666 million was identified a number of weeks ago in the health Estimate for 2014. The HSE is charged with drawing up a service plan for 2014 but nobody can tell...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister said the figure was not achievable.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Care Strategy (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 4. To ask the Minister for Health the key measures that will be implemented in primary care over the remainder of the Government's term in office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48346/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Care Strategy (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: In this question, I am raising the issue of primary care services, rather than primary care centres. It is clear that general practitioner services are under great pressure at present. I received a letter last week from more than 50 GPs who indicated that they are not able to operate or provide the service they would like to provide. Continual cuts have been made in the context of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Care Strategy (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: My only fear is that the Minister of State actually believes what he read because if he does he is completely removed from what is happening in primary care. GP services throughout the country are under huge pressure. In supporting GPs there is an obligation to deliver on the primary care strategy, including the roll-out of chronic disease management and the other things the Minister of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Care Strategy (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: That is simply not the case.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Care Strategy (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: In 2001.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Care Strategy (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: We have handed it over to the Minister, Deputy Reilly, since then.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Care Strategy (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: It is a pity we did not get some answers. I remind the Minister of State that we are not in a courtroom but in the Dáil Chamber and my duty is to hold him to account.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Care Strategy (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I am not here to advocate for GPs. However, the Minister of State might understand that GPs are the ones who see patients every week in their surgeries. However, they now cannot see them on the same day. In some cases referral times are down to two or three minutes. That is what is happening in surgeries and, as the person responsible, the Minister of State should know that, rather than...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Care Strategy (13 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I mean consultations. The Minister of State knows that is happening.